Sixth grade me in social studies: “So they just attacked Athens because they were violent warmongers jealous of their prosperity!? Why do we idolize them?!”
clueless over the nature Europeans had for the rest of the world
But yeah, thank you for the article. Sparta was awful and the 300 makes my skin crawl because of how it glorified some of the earliest fascists in history.
good blog series about how Sparta was trash https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/
Sixth grade me in social studies: “So they just attacked Athens because they were violent warmongers jealous of their prosperity!? Why do we idolize them?!”
clueless over the nature Europeans had for the rest of the world
But yeah, thank you for the article. Sparta was awful and the 300 makes my skin crawl because of how it glorified some of the earliest fascists in history.